Socketables
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Objects that can be placed into variety of other items (equipment) to improve, change, or add to their features. Commonly in form of gemstones, runes, and charms.
Notable people involved: Joe Rumsey 'Ogre smash', Matt Uelmen, Travis Baldree, Nobuo Uematsu and Max Schaefer
Alternate names: Socketable items
Name variations: Sockatable equipment, socketed equipment
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See also: modular equipment (a more realistic variation of this)
Difference between this and modular equipment is usually boiled down to "can you attach many of the same items to the equipment?" for modular equipment the answer is almost always a resounding now: no guns with 3 scopes or laser sights each improving upon the last, while with socketables this might be true (though they're unlikely to be called scopes and laser sights).
Difference between this and modular equipment is usually boiled down to "can you attach many of the same items to the equipment?" for modular equipment the answer is almost always a resounding now: no guns with 3 scopes or laser sights each improving upon the last, while with socketables this might be true (though they're unlikely to be called scopes and laser sights).
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The first Socketables video game was released on December 1996.
Blizzard and Spiderweb Software published most of these games.